Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vivonics Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each of the company's active cases is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's innovations are being examined in two different technical categories within the medical and mechanical fields.
REMALY, MARK DONALD is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners. This decentralized prosecution environment requires practitioners to adapt to 2 different examination styles. Because the 2 pending office actions are located in 2 distinct art units, practitioners may encounter different technical guidelines for each case. Success will depend on addressing the individual concerns of each of the 2 distinct examiners while navigating the requirements of the 2 distinct art units.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMALY, MARK DONALD | 1 | 70.5% | +15.9% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090656 | THERMAL STRESS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | REMALY, MARK DONALD | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090656 | THERMAL STRESS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | REMALY, MARK DONALD | — |
| 18174841 | PARTICLE COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090656 | THERMAL STRESS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18174841 | PARTICLE COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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